Public Speaking
Upcoming
Videos of Previous Talks
Want to see Jenn speak at your event?
First, check the calendar above. If I am available for your event, submit this form, mention @codejennerator on twitter, or email me with the website, a list of potential topics, and what is included for speaking. It should include, at a minimum, a ticket to the event. I have a limited travel budget so travel and hotel may be negotiable for conferences with a large Gradle audience.
For new talks, I need at least 2 months advanced notice. Alternatively, you can pick from this list below.
The Path to Build Happiness - NEW!
In a healthy DevOps culture everyone is a part of the release process, but for builds, that’s not always the case. Sometimes the developers own it; sometimes the Ops team owns it; in many organizations, no one owns it. Because of this, engineers(myself included) have grown complacent with inefficient builds and even joke about how bad build times are. Now that I work as a Developer Advocate for Gradle and teach others about build tooling, I realize that many of the habits I developed as a software engineer are incredibly inefficient.
In this session, I’ll show how to follow these tool agnostic steps to achieve build happiness:
- Measure your builds.
- Analyze the data to see how developers and CI systems are running builds.
- Improve build processes using build automation tooling.
- Optimize builds with incrementalization and/or parallelization.
- Iterate to maintain build happiness.
Test-Driven Approaches to Documentation (with the Asciidoctor Gradle plugin and/or Exemplar) - NEW!
Note: This is an updated version of my popular Spring REST Docs talk to focus on the documentation tools we use at Gradle
Writing documentation can be a painful, but necessary step in the software development process. To ease the pain, a number of solutions exist. Tools like Javadoc and Swagger are easy to implement and good for reference documents, but they lack the cohesiveness and explanations provided in hand-written documentation such as user guides. But writing documentation like this can be a tedious and error-prone process. As soon as a new feature is added or a bugfix implemented, the docs are out of date again.
This is where test-driven approaches can help. Test-driven documentation solutions can ensure that sample code in your documentation is accurate. It can even hook into your CI process and fail the build when someone forgets to update the documentation. This session will show the tools and Gradle plugins we use to ensure accurate samples in the Gradle user guide, tutorials, and plugin documentation.
CodeNarc Revisited
When was the last time you looked at code quality? Do you have some old codenarc configuration with half(or more!) of the rules turned off because they were reporting false positives? Or maybe you have @SupressWarnings all over your code? Or perhaps you want to do something small like to enforce tabs vs spaces for all members of your team?
Codenarc is a static analysis tool for Groovy that enforces style, detects bad practices, and suggests improvements. If it has been awhile since you last looked at codenarc, there might be new rules or configuration options to get you back on the path to better code quality. This session will explore what is new with codenarc, options for specific groovy ecosystem projects such as grails, and walk through how to create custom rules for your own project.
Why use #groovylang? How to convince your boss and others
Groovy has been around for a long time, but over the last several years, Groovy has changed a lot. Some of the articles, blog posts, and talks published about early versions of Groovy are just no longer true. By the end of this session, you’ll be able to tell some of the best Groovy truth from fiction and leave with some solid arguments for your boss and others as to why Groovy is such an awesome, productive, and readable alternative language for the JVM.
We'll start with some of the community’s favorite features like special operators, optional typing, metaprogramming, and dynamic vs. static compilation. We’ll also explore popular libraries and frameworks where knowing Groovy would be helpful such as Gradle build files, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, and Apache Spark. The session concludes with ways to learn more and how to contribute to making Groovy even more groovy.
Full Chronology of Appearances
13 November 2019 -- Continuous Lifecycle Mannheim, Germany
6 November, 2019 -- Velocity EU Berlin, Germany
August 6, 2019 -- DevOpsDays Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN, USA
July 10, 2019 -- Münster Java User Group Münster, Germany
Maximizing Developer Productivity with Gradle and Maven - Slides
May 27-29, 2019 -- GR8Conf EU Copenhagen, Denmark
May 16-17 -- Spring IO Barcelona, Spain
Managing Dependencies for Spring Projects with Gradle* - Slides / Video
April 1-2, 2019 -- MicroXchg Berlin, Germany
Test-Driven Approaches to Documentation - Slides
March 20, 2019 -- Javaland Brühl, Germany
A Test-Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides
2018
29 November 2018 -- Gradle Webinar Series
What's New in Gradle 5.0* - Video
22 November 2018 -- Code more : Getting started with Open Source Berlin, Germany
Short pitch on contributing to Gradle
26 June 2018 -- Warsaw Java User Group Meetup Warsaw, Poland
A Test-Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides
1 June 2018 -- GR8Conf Europe Copenhagen, Denmark
Why Use #groovylang? How to convince your boss and others - Slides Video
22 March 2018 -- Berlin Groovy Users Group Berlin, Germany
Why Use #groovylang? How to convince your boss and others - Slides
2017
7 December 2017 -- Spring One Platform San Francisco, California, USA
A Test-Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides Video
19 September 2017 -- API Con DE Berlin, Germany
A Test-Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides Video
15 June 2017 -- Berlin Groovy User Group Berlin, Germany
Introduction to Documentation with Asciidoctor
1 June 2017 -- GR8Conf Europe Copenhagen, Denmark
Codenarc Revisited (Part 2) - Slides Video
31 May 2017 -- GR8Conf Europe Copenhagen, Denmark
Intro to Groovy Workshop - Slides
26 April 2017 -- Code Europe Krakow, Poland
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides Video
21 April 2017 -- Women Techmakers Copenhagen
Intro to Git and Github - Slides
31 March 2017 -- Greach Madrid, Spain
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides - Video
7 February 2017 -- JFokus Stockholm, Sweden
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides - Video
2016
28 July 2016 -- Gr8Conf US Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides
Codenarc Revisited - Slides
18 June 2016 -- Gr8Ladies Gr8Workshop
New to Groovy Track: Modules on Groovy, Gradle, and Grails - Slides
2-3 June 2016 -- Gr8Conf Europe
Copenhagen, Denmark
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides - Video
Codenarc Revisited - Slides - Video
The future of Groovy: An open discussion* - Video
10 May 2016 -- Groovy Users of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
23 April 2016 -- Minnebar, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Community: Making the leap from attendee to organizer*
16 April 2016 -- Twin Cities Code Camp, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Test-Driven Approaches to Documenting RESTful APIs - Slides
18 March 2016 - Object Partners Tech Talk
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Test Driven Approach to Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs - Slides
Updated version with additional Grails example.
9 Feb 2016 -- Groovy Users of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Test-Driven Approaches to Documenting RESTful APIs - Slides
2015
9 November 2015 -- Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium
Creating RESTful Web Services With Grails 3 - 30-minute Tools in Action - Slides - Video
3 October 2015 -- Open Source North, Minneapolis, MN
Intro to Groovy - Slides
30 July 2015 -- Gr8Conf US, Minneapolis, MN
No-Nonsense NoSQL - Slides
RESTful Web Services in Grails - Slides - Video
3- 4 June 2015 -- Gr8Conf EU, Copenhagen, Denmark
RESTful Web Services in Grails - Slides
9 May 2015 -- Iowa Code Camp,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
No-Nonsense NoSQL (for Groovy and Grails) - Slides
10 - 11 April 2015 -- Greach, The Spanish Groovy Conference, Madrid Spain
Gr8Workshops: A Guided Discussion about Teaching and Diversity in the Groovy Community
2014
15 November 2014 -- Chippewa Valley Code Camp
Gr8Workshops: Teaching to Beginners - Screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrn6Hgimojg
1 November 2014 -- Iowa Code Camp
Groovy at Gr8Ladies - Screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpR8AOzVo34
How Getting Involved In the Community Changed My Life*
10 October 2014 -- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
6 October 2014 -- Gr8Ladies October Meetup
28 June 2014 -- Gr8Ladies Gr8Workshop
Groovy as a Scripting Language
22 March 2014 -- Women Techmakers: Minneapolis
*Co-presentation or Panel